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Frederick Marryat

Captain Frederick Marryat was a Royal Navy officer, a novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens. He is noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story, particularly for his semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy, for his children's novel The Children of the New Forest, and for a widely used system of maritime flag signalling, known as Marryat's Code... Read More

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This book is one of the most well known in English literature, having been written by Marryat in his later phase, when he wrote mostly for children. The Seagrave family (how aptly named) are on a stout ship en route for Australia. In a storm the ship is struck by lightning, set on fire, and dismasted. The crew make off in the ship's boats. and the family are abandoned on board the sinking ship, along with an elderly seaman, Masterman Ready. But she doesn't sink, instead drifting to the shelter... Topics: Athelstane, Marryat, Masterman, Ready, PDF, TXT, ZIP

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Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Topic: Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=YVEdAAAAIAAJ&oe=UTF-8